Robert weaves a hideous story for Margaret, about how post-war Germans started out trying to make Nazism impossible and wound up harming generations of poor children.

Robert weaves a hideous story for Margaret, about how post-war Germans started out trying to make Nazism impossible and wound up harming generations of poor children.

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do

Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to discuss Avery Brundage, the millionaire athlete and professional Olympics nerd who stopped the U.S. from Boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympics.



(2 Part Series)

Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to discuss Avery Brundage, the millionaire athlete and professional Olympics nerd who stopped the U.S. from Boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
 
(2 Part Series)

Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/32f80c91-35d5-432e-96b6-b19a00371f08/transcript

Robert killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Also he concludes the story of the murder of the Chagos Islands by the U.S. and the ailing British Empire. With bonus Dog Genocide!



Behind the Bastards is doing it's annual fundraiser for the Portland Diaper Bank! We had a soft start a week or so ago but will actually be plugging it this week and next. Please help if you can!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=twitter

Sources:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and

https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535

Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (p. 18). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/

https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos

https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003

Robert killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Also he concludes the story of the murder of the Chagos Islands by the U.S. and the ailing British Empire. With bonus Dog Genocide!
 
Behind the Bastards is doing it's annual fundraiser for the Portland Diaper Bank! We had a soft start a week or so ago but will actually be plugging it this week and next. Please help if you can!
<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&amp;utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=twitter">https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&amp;utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=twitter</a> 
Sources:
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354693000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2tr0lXOK8BOPydkDczbTSI">https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and</a>
<a href="https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://archive.is/KvGqw%23selection-1769.0-1781.535&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3t-jk4XyvzJ0QPOsbVZAXm">https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535</a>
Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (p. 18). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kddqgdJzA60-DhG9p9wvq">https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q%3Dchagos&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3343ECMr0KPnKCOZn0YICo">https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos</a>
<a href="https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0d4JV76bA1yEzNR2qJdQGj">https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003</a>

Part Two: How the British Empire and U.S. Department of Defense Murdered an Island Paradise

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/8cbf4350-523a-4d32-8212-b1950037140e/transcript

Robert welcomes Andrew Ti back to the show to tell the story of the Chagos Islands, a paradise founded by former slaves that was wiped out by the British empire so they could lease it to the U.S. as an air base.

(2 Part Series)

Behind the Bastards is doing it's annual fundraiser for the Portland Diaper Bank! We had a soft start a week or so ago but will actually be plugging it this week and next. Please help if you can!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=twitter

Sources:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and

https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535

Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (p. 18). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/

https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos

https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003

Robert welcomes Andrew Ti back to the show to tell the story of the Chagos Islands, a paradise founded by former slaves that was wiped out by the British empire so they could lease it to the U.S. as an air base.
(2 Part Series)
Behind the Bastards is doing it's annual fundraiser for the Portland Diaper Bank! We had a soft start a week or so ago but will actually be plugging it this week and next. Please help if you can!
<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&amp;utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=twitter">https://www.gofundme.com/f/btb-fundraiser-pdx-diaper-bank?attribution_id=sl:a1a2d058-9511-435e-ab61-93bc1252ffa5&amp;utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=twitter</a> 
Sources:
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354693000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2tr0lXOK8BOPydkDczbTSI">https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and</a>
<a href="https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://archive.is/KvGqw%23selection-1769.0-1781.535&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3t-jk4XyvzJ0QPOsbVZAXm">https://archive.is/KvGqw#selection-1769.0-1781.535</a>
Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (p. 18). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kddqgdJzA60-DhG9p9wvq">https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/2/25/how-britain-forcefully-depopulated-a-whole-archipelago/</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q%3Dchagos&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3343ECMr0KPnKCOZn0YICo">https://archive.org/details/webofdeceitbrita0000curt/page/432/mode/2up?q=chagos</a>
<a href="https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1718940354694000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0d4JV76bA1yEzNR2qJdQGj">https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003</a>

Part One: The Darkest Episode We Will Ever Do

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